Tunnels is edge of your seat suspenseful, gorgeously written and the ending is one of the biggest mind-f**cks I've ever seen (seriously, WTF?). I feel like the YA genre is plagued lately by awfully written love stories and love triangles. It is violent and quite scary at times (and I am a Stephen King and John Saul reader so I should know).Īnd if we accept that it is YA, don't think that you know what it's like. Tunnels is recommended for children apparently, but I think it is at the very least YA. It reminded me a lot of Jules Verne's works, with a twist. As a genre, I would say Tunnels is an adventure book by excellence. That is what leads him to the discovery of an underground world under London and to a bunch of adventures. Tunnels tells the story of Will Burrows, a boy with a passion for digging. Needless to say, they are nothing alike, except for the fact that they were discovered by the same editor.

I first heard of Tunnels in a newspaper (yes, really that long ago!) where it was deemed the 'The next Harry Potter' (and God knows we had a lot of those). And I decided I really should because more people need to know about it. This is the beginning of one of my favorite series of all time, but for some reason I never wrote a review for it. He has just released a new book called Summerhouse Land in a very limited run of hardbacks. Roderick followed Tunnels with further books in the series, Deeper, Freefall, Closer, Spiral and, finally, Terminal in 2013. Shortly after publication the film rights were purchased by US-based Relativity Media, and Mikael Håfström has been appointed as director. After intense media interest around its launch, Tunnels was published in almost forty countries and was a New York Times Bestseller, achieving sales of more than a million copies worldwide. Following a period of editing, Barry republished it as Tunnels in July 2007. He genuinely thought this was all that the future held for him until he was made redundant in 2001.īut Roderick surprised himself by working on a book with help from an old university friend and, in 2005, he self-published it as The Highfield Mole, which caught the attention of Barry Cunningham, founder of Chicken House, a publisher of children’s books.

After graduating without the faintest idea what he wanted to do for the rest of his life, he spent some time in the wilderness when he played in a few bands, then somehow fell into a job doing corporate finance for an investment bank in the City of London. Born in 1960, he grew up in Highgate, North London, and eventually went to University College where he dabbled in genetics and listened to Joy Division. Roderick Gordon is the author of the Tunnels series of books.

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